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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Tenement Museum: Your Story, Our Story

For Students 9th - 10th
This online museum features a digital archive. Students, and anyone around the United States, are encouraged to upload images of family objects and their stories. American immigration and migration are the foci for this archive.
Lesson Plan
Other

Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Poor Pat Must Immigrate

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Cross-curricular plan for lessons on the immigration of the Irish to America in the 1800s. Source material includes ballads of the immigrant experience, letters, scrapbook pages and notices to the 'Catholic Herald' seeking information...
Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: Child Labor in America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Historical photographs provide students with a firsthand look at the issue of child labor during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In this lesson plan, students will use photographs to further understanding of the...
Lesson Plan
Schools of California Online Resources for Education

Score: Nativism in 19th C. America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this instructional activity, students explore the reasons people immigrated to America in the nineteenth century, the urban growth that resulted, the development of public education, the contributions of immigrants, the wave of...
Interactive
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: Immigration and Migration: Timeline and Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An interactive look at court cases that deal with the rights of immigrants between 1876 and 1901.
Website
Other

American Women's History: Immigrant Women

For Students 9th - 10th
A resource page with links to information about immigrant women.
Handout
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Norwegian Immigration in the Nineteenth Century

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan about Norwegian immigrantion to the United States.
Article
Other

Web Site of Rajiv Pant: My America by r.k. Narayan

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains an article written by R. K. Narayan about why many people from India immigrate into the United States. (First published October 1985)